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Mormon Book - 1,756 words
Mormon Book Joseph Smith, the founder of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
claimed that he received the Book of Mormon as a
revelation from God. He said that the heavenly
being Moroni appeared to him and directed him to
some buried gold plates which contained ancient
writings. His task then, was to translate these
ancient writings with the help of seer stones
which were also buried with the gold plates. Smith
received strict directions from the heavenly being
that he was to show the plates to no one except
for appointed individuals. The Book of Mormon in
its preface identifies these as eleven persons:
the three witnesses and the eight witnesses. A
student of religion would now ...
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Mormon Book - 1,729 words
... ned a splinter group which broke off from the
Mormon Church (Church History Timeline, p. 3).
Federick G. Williams was one of the first high
priests of the Church, and the second counsellor
in the initial First Presidency (1833). Before
joining the Church he was a prosperous and
respected physician. He became a close friend of
Joseph Smith, and played an active role in
building the temple at Kirkland in Ohio. He helped
to select the revelations to be included in the
1835 Doctrine and Covenants. His list of
accomplishments go on. Yet he was rejected as
second counsellor in 1837 and excommunicated in
1838. He was restored to fellowship a year later,
and died two years after that (Church His ...
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Social And Political Reactions To Mormon Polygamy April 29, 1996 Social And Political Reactions To Polygamy We Are A Peculiar - 1,965 words
Social and Political Reactions to Mormon Polygamy
April 29, 1996 Social and Political Reactions to
Polygamy We are a peculiar people, Elder Bruce R.
McConkie once said (McConkie 25). The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of a few
odd Christian religions. Many of its practices
have created much persecution and political
reaction, polygamy being one of these. It created
much social and political persecution of the
Mormons. Most of this persecution had come from
anti-polygamist Christians. This is ironic because
the anti-polygamists believed in the Bible, but
not polygamy, one of its teachings. Many of Gods
righteous followers in the Old Testament practiced
polygamy. Abraham ma ...
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The Mormon Faith: A Myth - 1,830 words
The Mormon Faith: A Myth During the early 1800s
many new religious sects were growing in the
United States. Religious denominations tried to
spread their unique set of beliefs. Joseph Smith
found a new church based on revelation that was
translated into The Book of Mormon. The work tells
a story of a prophet named Lehi who sailed to
North America from Palestine in 600 BC. Lehi's
sons became bitter rivals and each formed a
powerful army. Their followers, the Lamanites and
Nephites, named after the brothers (Laman and
Nephi), prepared for battle in the area that would
become New York. A Nephite named Mormon recorded,
on golden tablets, stories of the battle and of
earlier events. The Lamanites ...
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All Churhes Are Cults - 726 words
All Churhes Are Cults Most people go to church to
maintain their faith in God; for me, going to
church made me loose mine. The church I attended
was called Faith Baptist. It was a small, shabby,
old church, not an exceedingly old church with
stunning architecture, but a plain, modern church
that had grown old and run down. The building
consisted of a square gymnasium with worn tape
marks on the floor, about five or six tiny
classrooms, a nursery, a chapel, and of course,
the sanctuary, lined with rows and rows of wooden
pews facing towards a wooden cross stretching form
the floor to the ceiling. Every Sunday I would
walk into the church across the worn brown carpet
and up the stairs to the m ...
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Banned And Censored Music - 1,100 words
Banned and Censored Music Banned and Censored
Music The discussion of whether or not the
censorship of music is constitutionally sound has
come about. This problem has been around since the
beginning of music in one way or another. The fact
of the matter is that there is technically no such
thing as the censorship of music in the United
States(Banned Music 1). Although that is
supposedly the case, that statement can be very
misleading. It is stated in the First Amendment of
the United States Constitution that every American
is granted the Freedom Of Speech. This includes
all musicians. Contrary to this statement, there
has been a numerous amount of cases in which a
song or music group has be ...
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Christianity - 882 words
Christianity A common type of Email that we
receive states that "denomination X" is not
Christian" -- where "X" may refer to the Jehovah's
Witnesses, Mormons, Roman Catholics, the United
Church, Unity Church, etc. What the Emailer is
really saying is that their own faith group are
real Christians, and that anyone who holds beliefs
that are significantly different are, in their
opinion, not Christian. Two widely different
definitions of "Christian" are: By Fundamentalist
Christians: Have been filled with the Holy Spirit
and are thus part of the body of Christ. A
necessary pre-requisite to salvation is to repent
of one's sins, and trust Jesus as Lord and Savior.
The Email continued by saying t ...
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Crossing The Great Plains - 542 words
CROSSING THE Great Plains The Oregon Trail was an
overland emigrant route in the United States from
the Missouri River to the Columbia River country,
was the way to travel back in the 1840s through
the 1860s. In 1843 the "Great Emigration" began
and the west would never be the same after the out
set of the travelers. The pioneers by wagon train
did not, however, follow any single narrow route.
In open country the different trains might spread
out over a large area, only to converge again for
river crossings, mountain passes. In time many
alternate routes also developed. They originated
at various places on the Missouri, although
Independence were favorite starting points, the
routes taken al ...
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David - 1,151 words
... tling her to a standstill. The great Olympic
gladiatorial contest took place in a barn loft.
Earle went into battle expecting at least minimal
co-operation from Beatrice. She had other ideas,
and struggled against him like fury. The idea of
her brothers standing watching made her fight all
the harder, but at last her shoulders were pinned
to the hay-covered floor." Great," said the twins
in unison, "now kiss her." But Beatrice wouldn't
co-operate in that either, and renewed the battle
with even greater fury. Thus ended the first
romance. The first job was at the Bank of Commerce
in Creston when Birney was 16, wages $15 a week.
He was a "promising young man" when the bank
transferred him ...
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Hanna Vs Joe Contrasting Roles In Agelsin America - 737 words
Hanna Vs. Joe Contrasting Roles In Agelsin America
Mishawn Simms Period 4 Hannah vs. Joe In Tony
Kushners to part play, Angels in America, readers
are introduced to a closeted gay man, Joe Pitt and
are exposed to his relationship with his Mormon
mother, Hannah. An underlying conflict occurs when
Hannah finds out her son is a homosexual; a
problem which forces her to question her love and
acceptance towards her son and her strong Mormon
anti gay sentiments and beliefs. This conflict
between mother and son helps Kushner illustrate
the complexity of sexuality and the changing views
of homosexuality. The conflict between Joe and
Hannah initially arises when Joe tells is mom for
the first time th ...
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Hinduism - 1,137 words
... nd read the Bible because it is the "handbook"
for life. The largest denominations in
Christianity are Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox,
and Protestant. At one point in time the church
was not separated but in 1054 CE the Roman
Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church
split because of a dispute over the use of
religious icons. The total number of Christians in
the world are is than 1,955,229,000. Eighty-seven
percent of North Americans identify themselves as
Christian. Around 33 percent of the world's
population regards themselves as Christian.
Through missionary activity the Christian religion
is currently active all over the world. Islam
Islam is one of the three major monotheistic ...
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Lorenzos Oil - 1,283 words
Lorenzos Oil Larry Hood Project IV STEPS 2 & 3
Article 1 1. What is property P? Increase in brain
activity 2. What is the sample? The 16 boys 3.
What is the population? All children 4. What is
the implicit question? Why is there a difference
in brain function between normal kids and kids
with ADHD. 5. What is not the implicit question?
Do all children have a property p? 6. What type of
argument? Sampling 7. what did they look at? They
looked at 16 children who were diagnosed with ADHD
six were not. 8. IQ: Is there a difference in
brain function between normal kids and kids with
ADHD? 9. NOT: Do all children have a difference in
brain function? Schematization S1 6% of school
children suffer f ...
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Morality Empirical Approach - 2,383 words
Morality - Empirical Approach 1. Introduction In
this paper I wish to consider the following
related questions: (i) Can a system of morality be
justified?; (ii) Why should one act morally?;
(iii) How can others be persuaded to act morally?
Clearly none of these questions is new, and moral
philosophers have proposed a variety of responses
to them over the centuries without reaching any
general agreement. Nevertheless, because these
questions are fundamental to any practical
application of moral theory, it is worthwhile to
continue to reflect upon them. For Jewish,
Christian and Muslim societies, the justification
of morality is the Word of God as expressed in the
Bible and Koran. Given an aut ...
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Mormonism - 2,557 words
Mormonism The summer of 1830, following the
organization of the Church, brought further
persecution and trials, particularly for the Smith
family. Joseph Smith, Sr., father of the Prophet,
was one of his most loyal defenders. On one
occasion that fall, he was at home with his wife
Lucy, and had been "rather ill." A number of
neighbors came to call, mostly critical of the
reputation of the Smith family. One "Quaker
gentleman" came with a note for a fourteen-dollar
debt owed him by Joseph Sr., demanding payment,
though he apparently was not in great need of the
money. Father Smith offered to pay the man six
dollars, which was all he had, and arrange to get
the rest as soon as possible. Accordi ...
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Mound Builders Of North America - 1,052 words
... famous armada of galleys. The warriors
themselves were painted with ocher and wore many
feathers. They would stand upright on the canoes,
and they had elaborately decorated leather shields
with which to protect themselves and the oarsmen.
In spite of all of the information that has
seemingly been amassed by historians and
architects, much of the accumulated information is
actually nothing but theories based on
observations of other cultures. While researchers
were fortunate that de Sotos chroniclers wrote
some descriptions of the mound builders, the
Spanish were generally apathetic towards the
Indians and wrote vaguely of their observations.
One of de Sotos chroniclers, Garcilaso de la V ...
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Polygamy - 1,029 words
Polygamy Polygamy is the practice of a man taking
more than one wife at the same time. Polyandry is
when a woman takes more that one husband at the
same time. Polyandry is rare compared to polygamy,
because it is only known to be inexistence in two
parts of the world. One is among the Nair people
who are inhabitants of Indias Malabar Coast. The
other is in Tibet, where a woman can take her
husbands brothers as her mates. This paper will be
focused strictly on the debate over polygamy. It
does more harm than good and should be banned and
enforced strongly within the United States
borders. Being married to more than one person at
the same time has been illegal in the U.S. since
1862, but has n ...
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Poverty And Social Structure - 581 words
Poverty And Social Structure Pitzak, Chris Soc.
422 Dr. Heaton May 17, 1999 POVERTY AND SOCIAL
STRUCTURES Although the United States is one of
the richest countries in the world many of it's
people sleep in the streets, dig through garbage
cans to find food, and carry all that they own in
this world on their backs or in shopping carts.
These people are known as the homeless. Recently I
had the opportunity of helping, and at the same
time being educated by one of the members of this
unfortunate group. I was able to experience first
hand how a homeless person thinks and feels
through an intimate means of communications
popularly known as writing notes. Why writing
notes? Because the individual ...
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Religion In North American Town Plans - 1,218 words
... ousand (1,000) house lots, the average family
was to contain somewhere between fifteen (15) and
twenty (20) people. As Reps notes, Although the
controversial doctrine of polygamy was not
officially adopted until 1852, perhaps Smith had
this already in mind when he devised the plan of
his city. Space was also a key element that can be
found throughout the town plan. The streets of the
town were wide and ran in a gridiron pattern
throughout the town, while the residences in the
town were pushed a good distance away from the
streets. This made the town plan very efficient
and systematic in nature. While the town was still
being laid out, converts continued to flock to
both Independence and ...
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Religion In North American Towns - 1,217 words
Religion In North American Towns Religion has
played a vital role in the settling of many
pre-industrial North American towns and cities. In
fact, religion proved to be one of the main
reasons Europeans broke their affiliation with the
dictatorial and the monarchial rule in Europe and
came to settle the Americas. Generally, these
particular religious settlers incorporated
town-planning ideas developed in Europe and
translated them into their particular beliefs.
However, some specific and influential settlers
broke away from the norm in a progressive attempt
to invent new societies in a new land based on
accumulated knowledge. John Reps, the pre-eminent
American historian on town planning has ...
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Religion In North American Towns - 1,213 words
... 0) house lots, the average family was to
contain somewhere between fifteen (15) and twenty
(20) people. As Reps notes, "Although the
controversial doctrine of polygamy was not
officially adopted until 1852, perhaps Smith had
this already in mind when he devised the plan of
his city." Space was also a key element that can
be found throughout the town plan. The streets of
the town were wide and ran in a gridiron pattern
throughout the town, while the residences in the
town were pushed a good distance away from the
streets. This made the town plan very efficient
and systematic in nature. While the town was still
being laid out, converts continued to flock to
both Independence and Kirtland, ...
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